The Road Back Home

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The Road Back Home is the second compilation album by the Swedish progressive rock band The Flower Kings. It is a double album with some of the group's shorter and more straightforward songs, rather than their usual long/complex epic songs. All of the songs have been remastered and most have been remixed. Some have even been reworked, with new guitar solos, or new lead vocals, or different backing vocals, etc.

Roine Stolt personally made all the remakes, between December 2006 and January 2007, and gives comments for each track in the album's booklet. The album includes a previously unreleased track from The Rainmaker sessions and a cover version of Genesis' famous song "The Cinema Show".

Track listing

All songs by Roine Stolt except where noted.

Disc One

1. "My Cosmic Lover" – 6:14
2. "A Kings Prayer" – 5:34
3. "Stupid Girl" – 4:41
4. "Cosmic Circus" – 3:12
5. "Babylon" (Tomas Bodin) – 2:00
6. "Paradox Hotel" (Bodin, Stolt) – 5:40
7. "World Without A Heart" – 3:50
8. "Church Of Your Heart" – 6:11
9. "Vox Humana" – 4:21
10. "What If God Is Alone" – 6:42
11. "Starlight Man" – 3:28
12. "Grand Old World" – 5:02
13. "The Road Back Home" – 8:52
14. "The Cinema Show" (Genesis cover) (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford) – 11:56

Disc Two

1. "Ghost of the Red Cloud" – 4:41
2. "Painter" – 6:48
3. "I Am the Sun, Part Two" (excerpt) – 4:22
4. "Different People" – 5:14
5. "Little Deceiver" (The Rainmaker outtake) – 3:56
6. "Chickenfarmer Song" – 5:06
7. "Rhythm of the Sea" – 4:40
8. "Touch My Heaven" (Bodin) – 5:45
9. "Life Will Kill You" (Hasse Fröberg) – 6:36
10. "Monkey Business" – 4:21
11. "Compassion" – 4:44
12. "The Flower King" – 10:54
13. "Stardust We Are, Part Three" – 8:41

Personnel

• Roine Stolt: vocals, guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion
• Tomas Bodin: keyboards, vocals
• Hasse Fröberg: vocals, guitars
• Michael Stolt: bass guitar, vocals
• Jaime Salazar: drums
• Jonas Reingold: bass guitar, vocals
• Zoltan Csörsz: drums
• Marcus Liliequist: drums, vocals
• Daniel Gildenlöw: vocals
• Hasse Bruniusson: percussion
• Ulf Wallander: soprano saxophone
• Håkan Almkvist: sitar, tabla